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Very interesting story came out a few days ago about a shipwreck off the coast of Tasmania that crashed in 1797. The ship was carrying 17000 gallons of beer and a few sealed bottles were salvaged about 20 years ago and they were able to (possibly) recover the yeast and re-active it. You can...

This article came in the Boston Globe today, interesting tidbit on the tie between the increase in microbreweries and beer snobbery. Though personally, the side article on the beer snob who went to Germany left me wanting to punch the author through the internet for how pretentious he was...

Hey All, No, this isn't another "BrewDog posted it's recipes" thread, it's a discussion of their beers and brewing in general. As I was going through their recipes I noticed a number of their beers were 80-100 IBUs up to 200 IBUs (ignoring the crazy stuff like beer bottles made out of...

Title says it all, the Scottish brewery BrewDog just released ever recipe it has for you to download, 215 in total to try out. Some are quite simple others are quite complex, just about every style is available. Check it out and get experimenting. The don't have times in their hop schedule but...

http://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2015/11/24/craft-brewer-shuts-its-doors-year-after-raising-concerns-about-pay-play-boston/aio0Yu8gvVV5ILmGPSBuaM/story.html Don't know if it has anything to do with the Pay to Play debate going on up in Boston, or if they're going to start something new at...

Hi all, A quick question that could have a lot of different answers. I've been homebrewing about 4 years now and I've got good technique with my all grain and my brews are getting good reviews and I'm to the point where I'm putting them into competitions. The problem is it's mostly taking...

So a while back I made an all-grain variant of the Northern Brewers whiskey oak porter, mashed in at 152F and got an SG of 1.065 and after three weeks in the primary and 1 in the secondary at 68F it was down to 1.023 and wasn't moving at all, so I wrongly figured it was done and bottled the...

Hi All, Just did a very compressive water test on my home tap (well water) and while it didn't find anything nasty (lead, arsenic, etc.) it did show that that pH was 5.4 which is fairly acidic (similar to that of sparkling water) The question is: Is that a good thing or bad thing for my...

Hi All, A bunch of friends and I are going to make a large batch of Metheglin aka spiced mead (10 gallons) at a brew-your-own store and we're looking for insight on how to scale it up. The recipe below is for a 1 gallon batch and if anyone has any input on how to scale it would be greatly...

So I've got a an ESB bubbling away, but about 3 days in, I've got a good kräusen and it's bubbling vigerously but underneath the kräusen there are white strings hanging off. Is this some sort of contamination, and if so what if anything can I do? I've attached a pictures, I'd hate to dump it...

Hey Everyone, A friend of my girlfriend is moving overseas and gave us his entire homebrew kit (capper, two fermenters, etc.) and over a kilo of hops and grains, so now were have: 1kg roasted barely 750g Crystal Malt (doesn't say what L it is) 450g UK Kent Golding Pellets 140g US...

I'm a bit of a n00b when it comes to homebrewing (been doing it since xmas) and I've picked up a TB Porter kit and have realized the instruction are quite terrible and vague. From how it's written it looks like you boil the bittering hops (UK First Gold, Alpha 7.3%) for 20 to 30 and that's it...